Jordan Love sparks major divide among NFL coaches in latest QB tiers as 2025 season looms as career-defining

Jordan Love was 14th in Mike Sando's QB Tiers last year. In 2025, he moved slightly up to 13th, still in the second tier. The Athletic's Sando does a yearly exercise to evaluate quarterbacks around the NFL, and it's a great way to see how the league sees Love.

Overall, the perception is that the Green Bay Packers quarterback has the tools and creates explosive plays, but there are some concerns about vision and processing. 

As expected, Jordan Love is praised by his aggressiveness as a passer. His ability to generate big plays down the field is his main calling card.

"He is like what you wish Geno Smith was," an offensive coach told Sando. "He is a little bit of a gunslinger, and at times it gets him in trouble, but he is more consistently good than bad, where Geno is more toward the middle or back of that. Jordan has the physical talent to get away with it better."

Another coach mentioned that he could play even better if the offense helped him more.

"Jordan does a great job," the coach said. "He has a mastery of their offense, he handles multiple cadences and tempos well, and if anything, I think his growth is stifled a little by playing the coach's offense as opposed to doing more of what Jordan would excel doing."

While an NFL executive said that Love has some issues with "vision and processing," a defensive coach said that pressure can affect him too much.

"When we faced him last year, I felt like if you could get to him, you could rattle him," the coach pointed out. "He distributes the ball, and they have big skill (players who are) tough to bring down. That is how he makes his hay. I do not watch him and think, 'Oh, he is [expletive] people up.'"

Curiously, Jordan Love has elite pressure to sack ratio numbers throughout his NFL career.

It's curious that Matthew Stafford was bumped to Tier 1, and every film-watcher will praise him. However, even playing injured in 2024, Love had more yards per attempt, more touchdowns, a better passer rating, better EPA/play, way more air yards/play than Stafford last season. You can still think Stafford was and is better, but a tier and eight positions above feels like too much.

Even after a much worse statistical season than Love, Houston Texans' CJ Stroud is still tied for ninth, four positions ahead of Love. Most of Stroud's problems were tied to a collective failure. Jared Goff, Jalen Hurts, Baker Mayfield, and Dak Prescott are also ahead of Love.

Jordan Love had a better ranking than Brock Purdy, Kyler Murray, Aaron Rodgers, Tua Tagovailoa, and Trevor Lawrence.

After two years as a full-time starter, and one of them handling multiple injuries in 2024, the upcoming season looms large for Jordan Love to establish what he truly is in the NFL landscape.